The 3′ Igκ enhancer contains RNA polymerase II promoters: Implications for endogenous and transgenic κ gene expression

International Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 665-674

  Shen, Hong Ming ^a   Peters, Andrew ^a   Kao, Daniel ^a   Storb, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ig genes; Non consensus RNA splicing; RNA polymerase II; RNA polymerase III; Somatic hypermutation

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; PRIMER DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SPLICING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; SPLEEN; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 0034744191     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/13.5.665     Document Type: Article

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